Pith Number

pith:ORL2XKAB

pith:2012:ORL2XKAB2OIGMPJEELBPO6QLOT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Internet Topology over Time

Benjamin Edwards, George Stelle, Stephanie Forrest, Steven Hofmeyr

arxiv:1202.3993 v1 · 2012-02-17 · cs.NI · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ORL2XKAB2OIGMPJEELBPO6QLOT}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:02:02.271469Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7457aba801d390663d2422c2f77a0b74d01082b0a37d44ad898c5c4550339450

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.3993 · arxiv_version: 1202.3993v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.3993 · pith_short_12: ORL2XKAB2OIG · pith_short_16: ORL2XKAB2OIGMPJE · pith_short_8: ORL2XKAB

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ORL2XKAB2OIGMPJEELBPO6QLOT \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 7457aba801d390663d2422c2f77a0b74d01082b0a37d44ad898c5c4550339450

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d91d581ba892e5fc1d12478f2c7e46aac5a356a8db2750e90c62366990796880",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-17T19:05:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4da440127e85e03ca9facf99d1031c1b1b30ef94d76d9212cea25f4fa8eafb5a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.3993",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}